Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

All of life is a constant education.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.